msmmwelchFeb 26
Zeb Larson

I had a lot of fun writing this. MAGA’s economic incompetence isn’t just incompetence; there’s active malice in it because immiseration is the point, not the side effect. They want to reinforce class and hierarchy; they want to be rich people in a poor country because that will make them feel more powerful. We don’t have to treat their arguments in good faith or meet them in the middle.

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pain-is-the-plan/

The Pain Is the Plan

MAGA is actively seeking to immiserate the country in order to cement their power over the rest of us.

Liberal Currents
Feb 17 at 1:57pmWeb
Show threadAndreas BullingFeb 17
@zeblarson If one reads this short summary and replaces "MAGA" with the name of the conservative party in Germany (the CDU/CSU) then the statement is equally plausible. Unfortunately.
Show threadZeb LarsonFeb 17
@abulling I’m not surprised, unfortunately. It’s kind of why I bounced between American antecedents and Portuguese ones in this piece, because it’s a global problem (and these assholes have always talked to each other; plenty of American economic libertarians liked Salazar!)